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BOOTH TRUST

400 Pa. 117 (1960)

Booth Trust.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 3, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry D. Martin, with him James A. Stranahan, III, Isaac J. Silin, and V.H. Elderkin, Jr., for appellant.

Philip E. Brockway, with him G. Carroll Stribling, of the Missouri Bar, and Brockway & Brockway, for appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, BOK and EAGEN, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE COHEN, June 3, 1960:

This is an appeal from the decree of the orphans' court dividing a fund between the appellant and the estate of the appellant's deceased brother.

In 1937 Jane St. John Booth created an inter vivos trust in which she retained for herself and after her death gave to her daughter, Louise St. John Booth, a life estate in the net income with power to invade the corpus. The settlor further provided that upon the death...

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